66 Best Database Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Database Startups

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There are 132 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $10.5b. The average funding per company in this subset is $158.8m.

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Funding Rounds

$2.5b

Money raised

Cockroachs Labs is the New York based company behind Cockroach DB, an open source, distributed SQL database.

4

Funding Rounds

$108.0m

Money raised

PlanetScale is a database-as-a-service platform acting as a middleware system for MySQL.

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2

Funding Rounds

$4.2m

Money raised

Footprint is an all-in-one analysis platform to visualize your discoveries in blockchain data

6

Funding Rounds

$237.0m

Money raised

Database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of mysql

4

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$12.2m

Money raised

RethinkDB provides an open-source distributed NoSQL document-oriented database storing JSON documents and scaling data for applications.

5

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

Memgraph is an in-memory Cypher-compatible graph database.

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6

Funding Rounds

$399.8m

Money raised

Human Longevity is a genomic-based, health intelligence company empowering proactive healthcare and enabling a life better lived.

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6

Funding Rounds

$276.5m

Money raised

Crunchbase is company that offers an online platform for discovering information related to private and public businesses.

6

Funding Rounds

$44.8m

Money raised

VoltDB is a Bedford, Massachusetts-based developer of an in-memory SQL and relational database offering transaction processing in a horizontal scale-out platform.

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8

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$1.4b

Money raised

A company developing a cloud-based collaboration platform for professional teams to build software specific to their line of work or particular project. It was founded in 2013 and is located in San Francisco, California.

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2

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$300.0m

Money raised

ClickHouse is an open-source database management software developed originally by Yandex before being incorporated in 2021 by Aaron Katz, Alexey Milovidov, and Yury Izrailevsky.

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9

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$434.1m

Money raised

SingleStore is a San Francisco-based database software and analytics company offering a platform to help companies operationalize their data.

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7

Funding Rounds

$428.8m

Money raised

Aiven is a company that offers a managed open-source and multi-cloud data platform.

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4

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$24.0m

Money raised

Pave is a software company specializing in developing compensation documenting solutions for businesses.

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10

Funding Rounds

$356.8m

Money raised

Redis is a Mountain View, California-based developer of an open-source, in-memory database platform, the open-source Redis, and provides enterprise software as a cloud service built upon the product.

2

Funding Rounds

$10.6m

Money raised

MindsDB is a Berkeley, California-based developer of machine learning capabilities capable of being integrated into databases.

5

Funding Rounds

$11.7m

Money raised

Q-Sensei is a Brooklyn-based software company developing an enterprise search and analytics software.

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5

Funding Rounds

$236.0m

Money raised

Monte Carlo is a San Francisco-based software and data company developing a digital data reliability platform for monitoring and alerting users around missing or inaccurate data.

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1

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

Fluence is a decentralized database project and open data market for decentralized applications.

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6

Funding Rounds

$236.3m

Money raised

DataStax delivers a distributed cloud database built on Apache Cassandra

5

Funding Rounds

$81.8m

Money raised

Fauna Inc is a data application programming interface for applications.

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1

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$8.0m

Money raised

StepZen is a San Jose, California-based software as a service (SaaS) company offering a GraphQL API development service.

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5

Funding Rounds

$231.0m

Money raised

A computer software company with a graph analytics platform. It was founded in 2012 and is located in Redwood City, California.

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8

Funding Rounds

$44.3m

Money raised

A company offering a data unification and data graphing platform.

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15

Funding Rounds

$928.6m

Money raised

Collibra is an end-to-end data intelligence platform founded in 2008 by Felix Van De Maele.

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2

Funding Rounds

$11.0m

Money raised

Quest Software is a division of dell inc.; former company founded in 1987 by Vinny Smith.

3

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$10.6m

Money raised

Luna DNA is company providing a marketplace for genetic data using blockchain based data storage.

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5

Funding Rounds

$60.0m

Money raised

A software company offering a NoSQL database compatible with Apache Cassandra.

2

Funding Rounds

$14.0m

Money raised

A biotechnology company using the environmental microbiome to verify the origin of goods in global supply chains.

1

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$6.5m

Money raised

Fluree is a Winston Salem, NC-based company developing a web3 data platform.

2

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$53.0m

Money raised

Also known as Beijing Nxin Internet Technology, Nxin operates an agricultural internet platform providing data, e-commerce and financial service for the agricultural industry.

3

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$106.3m

Money raised

Bubble is a software company allowing users to build web apps without code

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5

Funding Rounds

$65.0m

Money raised

Viagogo is a London-based company founded in 2006 by Eric Baker.

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4

Funding Rounds

$7.1m

Money raised

A software company offering a low-code development platform for business operations.

1

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$3.0m

Money raised

Privacyhawk is a personal data protection app that helps reduce peoples' digital footprint and reduces their risk of scams and fraud.

7

Funding Rounds

$307.0m

Money raised

Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.

2

Funding Rounds

$65.0m

Money raised

Kinetica DB is a database company.

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1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

A company offering a distributed analytics platform for edge and hybrid cloud computing.

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1

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$40.0m

Money raised

LyteLoop is a Great Neck, New York-based photonic data storage company using fiber optics to store large quantities of data.

4

Funding Rounds

$4.1m

Money raised

TensorFlight is a property data and AI technology for insurance founded by Robert Kozikowski.

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3

Funding Rounds

$28.0m

Money raised

Tamr is an enterprise software company that uses AI to enable enterprise companies with data scattered across multiple different databases to clean and integrate corporate data efficiently and accurately, making data that was formerly inaccessible available for corporate analytics and decision-making.

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3

Funding Rounds

$110.0m

Money raised

ESG Book is a global leader in sustainability data and technology, trusted by many of the world's largest financial organisations.

4

Funding Rounds

$50.5m

Money raised

EnterpriseDB is a Bedford, Massachusetts-based company founded in 2004 by Andy Palmer.

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8

Funding Rounds

$135.8m

Money raised

neon-free is a neobank based in Switzerland offering Personal accounts including a debit card, with all transactions being managed from an iPhone or Android application. neon-free currently accepts to open mobile bank accounts for residents of Switzerland.

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$15.0k

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Anywhere.FM provides a cloud-based platform for uploading, playing and sharing music. Imeem acquired Anywhere.FM in 2008.

3

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$21.7m

Money raised

Label Insight is a SaaS company that provides insights on food label data to government, retailers, manufacturers and app developers.

5

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$40.0m

Money raised

GeoSpock is a database technology company based in Cambridge, UK and with international offices in Singapore and Tokyo. The company was founded by Dr Steve Marsh

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3

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$111.0m

Money raised

InfluxData is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012 by Todd Persen.

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2

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$8.0m

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mLab is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2011 by Will Shulman.

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2

Funding Rounds

$23.0m

Money raised

Panoply is a company founded in 2015 by Roi Avinoam.

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5

Funding Rounds

$45.3m

Money raised

ClustrixDB is a scale-out SQL database with a distributed shared-nothing architecture, automatic data redistribution, and built-in fault tolerance, accessible by a SQL interface with MySQL features.

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2

Funding Rounds

$26.0m

Money raised

RudderStack is an easily solve hard customer data problems founded in 2019 by Shvetank Jain.

4

Funding Rounds

$32.0m

Money raised

Dgraph is an open source, low latency, high throughput, native and distributed graph database.

3

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$370.0m

Money raised

PingCAP is a company founded in 2015.

2

Funding Rounds

$32.0m

Money raised

Aerospike is a high-performance, NoSQL database designed for real-time, mission-critical applications. It is known for its speed, scalability, and reliability, making it suitable for use cases that require low-latency data access and high throughput. Aerospike is optimized for speed, providing sub-millisecond latency for read and write operations.I

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2

Funding Rounds

$44.5m

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FirstLight is an Albany, New York-based telecommunications equipment company founded in 1999.

5

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$180.6m

Money raised

Timescale is a New York-based company founded in 2015 by Michael Freedman.

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3

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$2.3m

Money raised

Short-term space reservations marketplace.

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5

Funding Rounds

$29.1m

Money raised

OtterTune, Inc. is an AI-Powered Database Admin founded in 2020 by Andy Pavlo.

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1

Funding Rounds

$8.5m

Money raised

VividCortex is an Austin, Texas-based company.

5

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$4.7m

Money raised

Orb is a Tokyo-based company founded in 2014 by Masaaki Nakatsu.

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$2.0m

Money raised

ObjectBox is a company founded in 2015 by Vivien Dollinger.

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2

Funding Rounds

$14.3m

Money raised

QuestDB is an open-source SQL database designed to process time-series data.

2

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$80.0m

Money raised

Silk is a company founded in 2019 by Dani Golan.

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3

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$32.0m

Money raised

Crate.io is an enabling Data Insights at Scale founded in 2013.

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$14.2m

Money raised

NuoDB is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company founded in 2010 by Jim Starkey.

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